SmartOS on Vagrant

SmartOS provides the best Node.js experience, and is an all-around powerhouse operating system. Many developers use Vagrant to manage runtimes and build environments.

We want to bring an up to date version of SmartOS to Vagrant.

Install/Run

1. Install SmartOS on Virtualbox
2. Setup port forwarding from localhost:2222 to vbox:22

The GLOBALZ folder is an unpacked set of scripts to install on the SmartOS global zone.

1. Run make package
2. Copy vagrant-tools.tar.gz to SmartOS (scp, or python -m SimpleHTTPServer)
3. On SmartOS run tar -zxf vagrant-tools.tar.gz -C /
4. Restart SmartOS

An SMF job should prepare the OS. The first time you do this, it may take a while since it has to download a new VM image.

Vagrant rougly connects to your instance with the following line:

ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key -p 2222 vagrant@localhost

Todo

• add resiliency to scripts
• add automation
• let SmartOS/VirtualBoxTools be pluggable for fast updates

Goals

1. to automate the vagrant-ification of a base smarts build

2. users should be able to get running with

    vagrant init smartos http://example/smartos-vagrant.box
    vagrant up
    vagrant ssh
   

3. The box should include Nodejs and all necessary build tools for compiling c++ node extensions

4. create an awesome single-page advertising how awesome smartos vagrant boxes are

Plans

Andrzej Szeszo has provided a great head-start with his build scripts and running example. We plan to expand upon this.

Prepare Script

A prep-script should run on a base SmartOS box. Todos in no particular order:

• create a vagrant zone
• add nodejs packages to vagrant zone
• assign global and vagrant zones to use DHCP
• setup dns
• vagrant ssh should reach the vagrant zone, not the global zone